On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 8:55 PM, rajan <vgmon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Jeff. That helps understanding it 50%. > > *Session 2* fails to UPDATE the record which is in *(0,2)* and this tuple > is > marked for deletion. It means that *(0,2) never exists* when Session 2 is > trying to perform the update. >
That it never exists is an appearance presented to the user. The database system works hard to maintain that illusion but the database system itself sees through the illusion. It blocks on (0,2) waiting for session 1 to commit, and then once that happens session 2 goes and finds the new version of that row ((0,4) in this case) and locks it. If you use pageinspect, you can see that (0,2) has left a pointer behind pointing to (0,4) to make it easy to find. Cheers, Jeff
